Letter 1910-1920 Staten Islan, N.Y. [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, Unknown / Anna Catherine Markham. 1910-1920.

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Letter 1910-1920 Staten Islan, N.Y. [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, Unknown / Anna Catherine Markham. 1910-1920.

Anna is glad to hear he is oing well. She was asked to do a reading by Dr. Hillis at the Plymouth Church. Percy Mackaye, Charles Towne, Jessie R and I met. Mrs. Robinson and Benjamin Lowe came to the church. She readed Hoe and lincoln. She was the besyt. She was sorry he wasn't at the Bloms. Louis Anspacher was there, he told of the John Burns episode. Remember the taldk at the Plaza Hotel. Manys thanks to the Meekers for being good to you.

2 p. on 1 leaf ; 18-25 cm.

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

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California poet. Raised near Vacaville, became a schoolteacher in Coloma and later in Oakland. Became famous overnight with publication of "The Man with a Hoe," his protest against brutalization of labor, in "San Francisco Examiner" (January 15, 1899). Following this success Markham moved to New York where he scored another triumph with "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901). He became a well-known reader of his own poems and lecturer of idealistic views, but his creative output for remainder of life ...

Markham, Anna Catherine, 1859-1938

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Wife of Edwin Markham and secretary of the Poetry Society of America. From the description of Letter, 1927 April 18, Staten Island, N.Y., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184905008 ...

Towne, Charlkes.

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Meeker, Claude, 1861-1929.

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Robinson, Corrine Roosvelt, 1861-1943.

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MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956

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Percy MacKaye was a poet and dramatist. From the description of Note, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007259 American poet and dramatist. From the description of Papers, 1909-1912. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36097093 Author Percy MacKaye was born into a theatrical family in New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1897, and travelled through Europe for a time before taking a teaching job at the Craigie School in N...

Lowe, Benjamin, 1954-

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